How does it any way make sense that you be able to purchase Crucible gear without playing a single game of crucible? "You've sure shown your worth to us in Crucible by bringing me all of these awesome materials! Here, have some PVP variant gear!" What's so special about the crucible variant gear anyway? Vanguard sells essentially the same items and weapons give or take specific perks and can be acquired through PvE if that's what you're into. There's a reason they made vanguard and crucible reputation systems. One is for Crucible, the other is for PvE. It's not broken, it actually makes sense this way. "Useful" is very debatable as I'm sure many more people would argue this new system is more useful to them.